Abstract
Pamela Horn's history of Victorian pleasures and pastimes offers an informative tour of nineteenth-century British leisure. A work of synthesis, it does not break new ground in [End Page 305] the study of Victorian recreation. But in fairly short compass it treats topics from poaching to horse racing, and tourism to music hall. Horn has plumbed specialized histories of foxhunting, sports, fashion, shopping, manufacturing, and music, as well as a good number of memoirs of Victorian life, works with titles like That's the Way It Was and So Long Ago. These provide a bounty of revealing anecdotes—though one wishes Horn described the genre or the individual memoirists briefly, if only to acknowledge the possible problem of nostalgic misrepresentation.
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